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Black Parents to Protest Charge for Teen Tossed from Desk

December 17, 2015 6:22 AM

Associated Press

FILE - An image from video shows Spring Valley High School (Columbia, S.C., student resource officer Ben Fields, a senior deputy with the Richland County police department, using force to remove a female student from a classroom, Oct. 26, 2015.

A group of black parents plans to present a petition calling for officials to drop charges against a 16-year-old South Carolina high school student who was videotaped being yanked from her desk and thrown to the floor by a police officer in her classroom.

A misdemeanor charge of disturbing schools was filed against the student and an 18-year-old who videotaped the incident on her cellphone at Spring Valley High School in Columbia.